Associate Professor Helen Ashman

I joined UniSA on 5th June 2007, after nearly ten years at the University of Nottingham (see my old home page there). I headed the Web Technologies Lab (WebTech) and am still involved in the research done there, externally supervising my ongoing PhD students.

I now head up the Security Lab, which covers lots of topics in security, cryptography, privacy etc. (as you'd expect) but also other Web topics such as Web search, folksonomies and community content, bioinformatics, adaptive hypermedia and e-learning, and others. Look at the lab's Web page to see the kind of projects we are involved in.

• Cryptography and security: I teach network security using a hands-on approach, getting students into groups whose task is to set up, secure and defend a host with Web, command line and file transfer services. Then there is a "War Games" part of this course where each group endeavours to probe the security weaknesses of the other groups' hosts and services, while defending their own host and services.
• Forensic and Analytical Computing: We used a hands-on approach for this course in 2008, with students not only analysing DBAN-cleared and prepared hard discs, but also setting up and monitoring honeypots on the Internet.

Ph.D. RMIT Australia 1997

B.Sc. (Hons) (Pure Maths) University of Adelaide 1992.

B.A. (Pure Maths and Computer Science) Flinders University of South Australia 1991.

• Security, cryptographic algorithms and data privacy, a "data censor" as an adaptive hypermedia system
• Hypertext and hypermedia, adaptive hypermedia, non-cartesian information structure (semi-structured data)
• Web technologies, community content analysis, condensing meaning or classification of Web objects from clustered user judgements
• Bioinformatics: community content, self-organising data,
• E-learning, personalisation of content and presentation, localisation of content (geographical, cultural or any other community-specific localisation)
• Emergence, social networks

There are lots of publications but every time I try to enter them into this dictatorial system, they mysteriously vanish! Have a look at the Security Lab page for generally up-to-date publication details.